Passing Strange, Bailiwick Chicago at Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, through May 29. JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound really rock it out in this funny and touching coming-of-age story of an African-American artist who leaves the conformity of suburban Los Angeles to find inspiration in Amsterdam and Berlin. SCM
Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli’s Daughter, The Neo-Futurists, through June 4. The life, career and other odd trivia surrounding Liza Minnelli gets obsessively and amusingly recounted and recreated by performer/author Mary Fons, all the while she asserts that she should be the famed gay icon’s daughter. SCM
Soul Samurai, InFusion Theatre Company at Theater Wit, through June 5. Not another chop-socky spoof, but an adrenaline-pumping multi-media roller-coaster ride through a post-apocalyptic Freudian universe as dark as your favorite graphic novel. MSB
Working, Broadway Theatre at Water Tower Place, through June 5. In Studs Terkel’s America, there are neither insignificant jobs nor insignificant jobholders. This jubilantly proletarian musical revue reminds us how grateful we oughta be for that. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan